That afternoon, I tried to understand if I had made a choic… - Alexander Chee

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That afternoon, I tried to understand if I had made a choice about what to write. But instead it seemed to me if anyone had made a choice, the novel had, choosing me like I was a door and walking through me out into the world.

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Alexander Chee (born August 21, 1967) is an American fiction writer, poet, journalist and reviewer.

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To write is to sell a ticket to escape, not from the truth, but into it.

I tilt my head back and carefully toss my hair over my right shoulder in the way I have seen my younger sister do. I realize I know one more thing about her than I did before - what it feels like to do this and why you would. It’s like your own little thunderclap.

And I would tell him, as we rise into the air, The curse is not that we cannot choose our Fates.
The curse, the curse we all live under, is that we can.

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